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    The Politics of Environmental Degredation in Tanure Ojaide’s TheActivist
    (Department of English, Nasarawa State University keffi., 2020-02-05) Muhammad, Idris Ladan; Yakubu, Patience Vintse; Garbson, Zephaniah John
    The Niger-Delta issue has been one of the major concerns of contemporary Nigerian writers and critics for sometimes now, in most of works, both poetry and prose, they reflect the sociopolitical and socio-economic realities of present day society. They also depict the plundering of the land by the leaders as well as the political and economic marginalization of the down trodden. It is these realities that Tanure Ojaide’s The Activist explores. This paper explores environmental issues as well as socio-political agitations as depicted in the novel, using ecocritical literary theory. The paper also draws attention to the effect of politics of of environmental degradation, government and leaders actions and inactions over the affairs of the people in the oil rich region. Keywords: Politics, Environmental degradation and Eco-criticism